Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Glastonbury alternative stream based line-up

Spotify has today cast a new light on this weekend's Glastonbury Festival by releasing an alternative line-up based on UK streams to date in 2015.

The new line-up rearranges all three main stages across the weekend, giving popular newcomer James Bay the headline Pyramid slot above Florence & The Machine. But Spotify streams also reveal that Florence & The Machine were more than worthy candidates to replace the injury-prone Foo Fighters as Pyramid Stage headliners, as Florence & The Machine notched up more streams in the UK this year than the Foo Fighters anyway.

Spotify users have also managed to knock Kanye West down a notch, as young Bristolian George Ezra pips the controversial rapper to the top of Saturday's bill. Popular Leeds locals Alt-J and Irish singer-songwriter Hozier set The Who tumbling off the top spot on Sunday, with both jumping above the classic rockers on the festival's closing night.

With only a mere ten acts holding their original slot, the streaming figures from Spotify demonstrate how Glastonbury would result in a different event entirely if calculated using the artists' popularity with UK music fans on Spotify.

SPOTIFY'S ALTERNATIVE LINE-UP: Original running order on the left: Artist ranked by Spotify streams in the UK in 2015 on the rightPYRAMID STAGEFridayFlorence + the Machine James BayMotÃ¶rhead Florence + the MachineMary J BligeAlabama ShakesJames Bay ChronixxChronixx MotÃ¶rhead